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 Numerous mentoring programs around the country regularly match businesses with kids. The varied programs are critically important and often show positive results. But few, if any, of these initiatives involve the head of the company in a year-long effort to broaden the horizons of at-risk students through the world of business.
In an ambitious effort to prepare vulnerable children for rewarding careers in the future, Risen Christ School (RCS), a 325-student, K-8 grade school located in the Powderhorn Park area of Minneapolis, has created an innovative program, Imagine the Possibilities.
More than 90 percent of RCS's students come from families who are living either at or below the poverty line. Many of these students will become first-generation high school graduates. Because these students have limited contact with the world of business, the school believes they would benefit from personal interactions with business leaders.
 Imagine the Possibilities program will pair the top executives from over a dozen companies with up to six students in grades 6-8. The business leaders/mentors would design a project related to their field to be presented over the course of the school year to their group of six students.
Michael McHugh, president of Midwest Construction Group and Dave Bice, president of Bald Eagle Erectors are teaming up to create a program to introduce the students to a variety of careers in construction beyond manual labor.
"We are going to build our program around a construction project that the students can follow from beginning to end so they can understand each phase," said McHugh, who attended RCS, formerly Holy Name School.
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American Indians are six times more likely to die from tuberculosis and twice as likely as other Americans to die from diabetes. Doctors and others familiar with the disparities between American Indians and the rest of the population say using specially designated advocates can improve care for Indian patients while they're in the hospital. It also can improve health outcomes once patients return home.
That's what Aida Strom does every day. It's her job to make sure American Indian patients at Hennepin County Medical Center have everything they need.
Strom visits patients to ask how they're feeling and relays their concerns to social workers and medical staff. She resolves complaints, arranges for spiritual leaders and clarifies medical information for families.
"My role is, for lack of a better term, like an interpreter's role," she said. "There are some real strong cultural identity issues that Indian people come with in the hospital."
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Setting up a potential clash with the NCAA, the North Dakota House approved a bill that requires the University of North Dakota to keep its Fighting Sioux athletics nickname. The university has been preparing to drop the nickname and its American Indian head logo this summer as part of a negotiated lawsuit settlement with the NCAA, which considers both to be hostile and abusive to American Indians.
House members voted 65-28 to approve legislation that requires UND to keep the nickname and logo, and directs Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem to consider an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA if any penalties result.
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WaterLegacy, a grassroots environmental organization based in Minnesota, has been granted the right to intervene as a party in a lawsuit filed by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce (MCC) to prevent application to its mining industry members of the water quality standard protecting wild rice from sulfate pollution. On December 17, 2010, the MCC filed a lawsuit to block the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA) application of the water quality standard protecting wild rice by limiting sulfate pollution in wild rice waters. WaterLegacy served a notice of intervention/motion to intervene as a party to the lawsuit and a motion to dismiss the MCC's complaint on Jan. 6, 2011. |
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 Homelessness is one of the enduring problems of metropolitan life, and Minneapolis is no exception. While the city of Minneapolis and local organizations help everyone, no matter what race, gender, or nationality they are, one particularly painful truth is that Native American Elders are sometimes forced to live on the streets. Janet Stately, The program director in the Senior Department of the American Indian Center (MAIC), deals with homeless Elders every day.
"One of the problems facing our Elders is the fact that in our culture there is a lot of extended family to take care of," Stately said. "Many of the high rises in the area do not allow multiple kids to live in the one or two bedroom apartments they offer. What that does is it essentially excludes grandfathers who are taking care of many grandchildren. They've taken in family members, and they're not going to put their family out in the street." "Maybe they've had to move for some reason or another. If it's not subsidized housing, maybe another barrier is first month's rent. Sometimes they just don't have the money to keep going."
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